Process for manufacturing sugar



Patented May 27, 1941- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PROCESS FOR SUGAR Volkmar Klopier, Dresden, Germany 4 Claims.

This invention relates to a process for manutions 01 the problem, it having been found that such known processes result in producing hydroscopic bodies which, when solidified, cannot be made in powder form and which act diflerently from ordinary white sugar when used. Technical experiments for crystallizing or solidifying beet sap, condensed in a vacuum, were similarly unsuccessful. It was also found that solid dry bodies wereobtained which were not adapted for general use due to the fact that they rapidly absorbed moisture from the atmosphere.

The object of the present invention is to produce' a usuable sugar which shows similar form and structure of the minerals of the sugar beet as the sugar beet sap shows, by adding minerals in appropriate iorm to ordinary sugar or sugar farines, the said minerals being bound to such organic acids as are easily absorbed by the human organism.

It has been demonstrated that in fruits and vegetables, the minerals are all bound to organic acids, therefore minerals of fruits and vegetables have no injurious efiect upon the human system. The bound materials take effect only after the burning of the organic acid remaining. The minerals bound to organic acids consist mainly of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese and homeopathical small quantities of copper, nickel, zinc, lithium, rubidium, strontium, barium, cerium, vanadium, chromium, aluminum, antimony, thorium, tungsten, uranium,

- cobalt, molybdenum, gold, lead, bismuth, cadmium, tin, silver, tellurium and selenium; also small amounts of chlorine, bromine, iodine, fluorine and silicic acid together with large,quantities of phosphates are present. The minerals used in the present invention are varied as to proportions in such manner that they correspond to the minerals of the sugar beet with the exception 01 an increased calcium-magnesium component.

The process of absorption by ordinary sugar of organic mineral is carried out as follows:

94 parts of sugar is moistened by 6 to 10 parts of water, which mixture in turn is united with 6 parts of a dry organic mineral composition of the above described character. By adding water of a quantity insuflicient for solution of the sugar,

a saturated solution results which adheres in the form of a laciniate layer to the sugar crystals which have not as yet dissolved. By then adding the organic mineral composition in fine powder form to the moistened sugar, the former spreads like a powder ring around the moistened sugar crystals and remains there; In this condition, the mixture is exposed suddenly to an increased temperature, preferably by decreasing the pressure at the same time. The organic mineral composition used has a solvent curve similar to sugar which, as is well known, up to the solution point has a solution degree commensurate to the degree of heat until it dissolves (oversaturated solution) 1 with the oversaturated solution, or in other words, with the dissolving, a sort oi eutectic mixture forms; that is'a homogeneous mixture 01 two oversaturated mixtures takes place, one of which is the organic mineral composition, and the other the sugar, which adheres to the continuously decreasing size of the sugar crystals. When the proper temperature is obtained, the equilibrium is reached, resulting in a uniform melting of the sugar and the organic composition, perfectly homogeneous. Should decreased pressure exist in the reaction vessel, a water evaporation occurs at the moment of sugar-mineral solution, resulting in such complete drying that the individual elements are not recognizable, even under microscopic examination.

In the described process a solution of potassium phosphate is added to the sugar, producing with the described organic mineral preparation in the presence of the sugar, colloidal calcium phosphate.

This process produces a mineral-containing sugar, the minerals being in identical proportions to those present in the sugar beet sugar, and sugar which is not hydroscopic, 'is spreadable, soluble and generally usable as is ordinary sugar.

The sugar produced by this process, enriched as it is by organic minerals, is exceedingly palatable, resembling in taste ordinary sugar. It has the added advantages of having a basic surplus of about plus for grams, not producing acidity even when used in unusual quantities.

I claim:

1. In the process of preparing sugar, the steps of adding to sugar containing previously added dry organic minerals, a solution of potassium phosphate in amount sufllcient to moisten it yet insuiiicient todissolve it, then adding as a fine powder form to said moistened sugar an organic mineral comprising the minerals normally present in sugar beets in the proportions in which they naturally occur in sugar beets with an excess proportion 0! calcium having a compounding ratio approximating that or the salts of sugar beet and the metallic elements thereof associated with acids which are consumable in the human organism. I

2. In the process of preparing sugar, the steps of adding to sugar containing previously added dry organic minerals, a solution of potassium phosphate in amount suillcient to moisten it yet insufilcient to dissolve it, then adding as a fine powder form to said moistened sugar an organic mineral comprising the minerals normally present in sugar beets in the proportions in which they naturally occur in sugar beets with an excess proportion of calcium having a compounding ratio approximating that of the salts of sugar beet and the metallic elements thereof associated with acids which are consumable in the human organism, then exposing the mixture to a suddent increase in temperature.

3. In the process of preparing sugar, the steps of adding to sugar containing previously added dry organic minerals, a solution of potassium phosphate in amount sufficient to moisten it yet insufficient to dissolve it, then adding as a fine powder form to said moistened sugar an organic mineral comprising the minerals normally presorganism, then exposing the mixture to a suddent increase in temperature and wherein a ent in sugar beets in the proportions in which they naturally occur in sugar beets with an excess proportion of calcium having a compounding ratio approximating that of the salts of sugar beet and the metallic elements thereof associated with acids which are consumable in the human simultaneous decrease in pressure is employed with the increase in temperature.

4. In the process or preparing sugar, the steps or adding to sugar containing previously added dry organic minerals, a solution of potassium phosphate in amount suflicient to moisten it yet insui'flcient to dissolve it, then adding as a flne powder form to said moistened sugar an organic mineral comprising the minerals normally present in sugar beets in the proportions in which they naturally occur in sugar beets with an excess proportion of calcium having a compounding ratio approximating that of the salts of sugar beet and the metallic elements thereof associated with acids which are consumable in the human organism, then heating in such a manner that a homogeneous mixture of the two solutions results and evaporating.

VOLKMAR KLOIFER. 

